The course is Tuesdays and Thursdays 11.30-12.50.
Thursday Feb 4: Intro to course
Tuesday Feb 9: Intro to Arabic NLP
Thursday Feb 11: End of Intro to Arabic NLP; Writing systems
Slides (wirting systems)
Tuesday February 16: Projects discussion, writing systems readings
Readings: Kalina presents Nelken & Shieber, Liumao presents Alghmadi & Pertaki
Slides: Kalina's
Thursday February 18: Writing systems readings
Readings: Chia-Chi presents Abu-Liel et al, Owen presents Badrashiny et al.
Slides: Owen's
Zoom recording: Chia-Chi's part did not record, I apologize; Owen's part
Tuesday February 23: MSA nominal morphology
Thursday February 25: MSA verbal morphology
Separate site on corpora with special grep instructions
Zoom recording (I again screwed up with pausing, initial part missing -- I will stop pausing)
Tuesday March 2: Morphological analysis 1: the Buckwalter Analyzer
Thursday March 4: Morphological analysis 2: MAGEAD
Tuesday March 9: Readings in morphology
Readings: Alex presents McCarthy (a big paper)
Thursday March 11: Readings in morphology: formal analysis
Readings: Jon Rawski and Hossep Dolatian; short version here
Tuesday March 16: Syntactic representations: phrase structure and dependency
Thursday March 18: MSA syntax
Slides (we got till slide 37)
Tuesday March 23: Finish MSA Syntax (starting with Slide 38); MSA morphological tagging, the MADAMIRA approach
Thursday March 25: MSA parsing
Tuesday March 30: Recent NLP approaches to morphological tagging
Note: we started with a contribution from Reem Faraj who talked about how she is using corpora in her research on aspect use in native speakers and herotage speakers; this was not recorded
Yash presents Zalmout & Habash 2017 and Zalmout & Habash 2020
Thursday April 1: Recent NLP approaches to MSA Parsing
Note: Yash finished his presentation from March 30; see his slides under that date
Papers covered: Kankanampati et al. 2020
Other papers: Shahrour et al. 2015, Shahrour et al. 2016, Taji et al. 2017; note: these papers are not primarily about parsing
Slides
Tuesday April 6: Dialects: phonology and morphology
Thursday April 8: Dialects: morphology and syntax
Tuesday April 13: Dialects: morphology: Kalina
Thursday April 15: Morphological processing for the dialects
Tuesday April 20: Parsing for the dialects (and an introduction to Tree Adjoining Grammars)
Thursday April 22: Language models and neural machine learning
Yash presents a paper: Inoue et al. 2021
Yash's slides and notes
Tuesday April 27: Other NLP applications: Named Entity Recognition; Speech processing 1
Victoria: named entity recognition (Zirikly & Diab 2015)
Intro to automatic speech recognition (ASR)
Thursday April 29: Other NLP applications: Sentiment Analysis; Speech processing 2
Kelsey: sentiment analysis (Twairesh & Al-Negheimesh 2019)
Dialect ID from audio
Tuesday May 4: Student project presentations
11.30 Word Order (Chia-Chi and Kelsey)
12.15 Broken Plurals (Kalina, Vasudha, Yang)
Thursday May 6: Student project presentations
11.30 Broken Plurals 2 (Kalina, Vasudha, Yang)
12.05 Genitive Constructions (Liumao, Victoria)